The Grizzly Bear Mauling Of Nicholas Kuperus
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After parking the four-wheelers, Nicholas’s friend, whom we will call Kevin, began walking down a trail to find a place to watch for moose. As Kevin walked silently along the trail, a fickle breeze kicked up and swirled his scent up the hill through the brush. A short distance away an alert sow grizzly was tending her three cubs and picked up his scent.
When the sow winded Kevin, she did the best thing a bear can do. She rounded up her cubs and dashed through the brush in a mad attempt to escape. The only problem was she was running directly toward Nicholas.
As Nicholas was walking down the trail, he heard loud crashing in the bushes in front of him. Hoping it was a moose, he stared in the direction of the noise. Just a few yards in front of him a huge sow and her three cubs suddenly appeared on the trail. Nicholas yelled out to warn her of his presence, hoping to avoid a confrontation with the massive bear. Before he could react she turned and raced toward him.
Nicholas could see the energy transfer through her fur and muscle with each bound she took. Her claws dug into the soil as she stared intensely into his eyes. As she closed in on him he groped his pockets for his bear spray. When she was about twenty feet from him he pressed the button releasing a billowing orange cloud of the irritant and hoped it would be enough to stop her.
Nicholas watched in horror as the sow ran through the cloud and he screamed for help. He lifted both arms in a subconscious sign of surrender to her power and an inadequate attempt at protecting himself. He hoped she would veer off at the last second, but she didn’t.
Although he had dispensed his bear spray properly, it didn’t take effect on the sow quickly enough to prevent her from attacking him. As soon as she could reach him with her jaws she clamped down on his hand without slowing down. The force of her movement jerked Nicholas around and she spun to continue her attack on him.
The sow was irate and attacked to protect her cubs from a threat. She punched her canines through his hands in turn, as he offered each of them to keep her at bay. She swatted him on the shoulder and clamped her jaws onto his shoulder so quickly that he couldn’t move before she had done it.
In a blindingly fast and violent attack the sow bit Nicholas several times on each arm, hand, and shoulder. Her attack was only stopped when Kevin suddenly appeared and fired his pistol in her direction. The sow backed up a few steps and glanced around, searching for her cubs. Finding them safe, she turned and disappeared with them into the brush.
Kevin ran to Nicholas’s side and examined his wounds. Nicholas had no wounds to his head or neck, but the holes all over his arms and hands were seeping large amounts of blood. Now, these two men were not ill prepared to go into the Alaskan backcountry. Kevin knew he needed to get medical help very quickly or Nicholas might go into shock, or worse, the bear may return.
Kevin searched through his backpack and retrieved a satellite-based communications device. Contacting emergency services stimulated Alaska Wildlife Officers to respond to the crisis.
The troopers rounded up a state-owned PA-18 Supercub airplane and immediately set off, loaded with medical equipment. Upon arrival at the GPS coordinates from Kevin’s device, they pulled off a highly technical landing on the ridge just above the moose hunters.
The emergency response team made their way down the hill to the hunter's location. After rendering first aid to slow the bleeding from his wounds, they packed him back up to the plane and flew toward Glennallen.
Once approaching town the flight crew landed near a waiting ambulance that had been notified of the attack ahead of time. Upon arriving at the local hospital, the medical team examined numerous puncture wounds on Nicholas’s hands, arms, and shoulders. They stitched up the larger wounds and bandaged him all over. There is no source indicating that he received antibiotics or pain medicine but it is safe the assume he had significant doses of each.
As for the grizzly sow and her cubs, her behavior was deemed defensive by investigators. She didn’t stalk Nicholas or try to bury him. She didn’t threaten Kevin after he arrived. She simply took her cubs and left after disabling what she thought was a possible threat to her and her cubs. No action was taken against the sow or her cubs following the attack on Nicholas. 
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It’s like swimming in the ocean ,you know there sharks But you still swim ! Go to bear country ,there’s going to be bears !
Yep, that's why I stay out of both
wow aren't you so wise...how many sheep make the same low intellect comment you do. what's missing from my statement?
She stared intently into his eyes ? love at first bite
You have an amazing grasp to spot the obvious thank you
Lewis and Clark were very impressed with these grizzly bears. They called them monsters. They wrote how Natives would do a war dance before dealing with one. They attacked problem Grizzlys with at least 8 or 10 warriors. Even then they expected to lose men in the fight.
All mumma bears have different personalitys and some are just more agressive then others. He was very lucky he ran into one that wasnt as agressive
You mean, predatory, right? I personally consider anyone throwing down on me, much more mauling me, aggressive.. But, yeah... IF she was wanting to eat him / them, it would be an easy free meal, usually... (Don't forget bear bells! :p)
I think it's more luck than anything. Some people are fortunate to not have close encounters with bears and some aren't. No matter how well prepared you are, if an attack happens fast it may not matter and nothing is foolproof when you have seconds to react. Bears are very tough and not easy to take down or stop even with bear spray or a firearm.
I'm glad the humans and bears lived to see another day. ❤
As I have stated previously...a bear with intent will not be deterred by pepper spray, rocks, sticks, or much else short of a proper firearm. A bear casually following or not really reacting from a distance - that's bear spray time. The bear has the upper hand until such time it doesn't and that isn't accomplished with passive or subtle means. A solid core projectile fired from a wireless hole-puncher of significant diameter is the best deterrent for a charging wild beast. Once in full-charge mode typically only they or lethal force will prevent them from reaching their target.
How droll.
@@elainedefreitas8106zw I think Doug might need a cold shower and a lie down after typing all that out 🤣
Goes to show you you can still do everything right and still get attacked!!! Thanks Addicus for another spectacular story and storytelling ❤ Adventure bravely 🐻
What did Moe and Curly in this example do correct?? Nick had no side arm First Huge Mistake...they separated into the trail..2nd Huge Mistake!!...realized Bear Spray does NOTHING...as proven many times....they were Asking for it...luckily the sow ran off with her cubs
@@arisdelis1 oh boy!! I was tying way to fast and didn't realize I said that!! Honest mistake I'm so sorry I've been having problems with my vision to since I'm prediabetic so my doc wants me to go for an eye exam 😭
How can an apex predator after eons of existence still find something like a smaller scrawny 2 legged human being a threat? Grizzlies are just troublesome and it’s no wonder wiser men before us nearly eradicated them
Thousands of years of spears, arrows, musket balls, and bullets
Just like the Indians right?
Thanks!
Thank you for your generosity and support Super! Adventure bravely!
I don't trust most humans (strangers) to do the right thing... No way on earth will I ever trust a bear to do it!
There really is no "did everything right" when dealing with an unpredictable, apex predator, who also happens to be a very overprotective mother.
I know guys!! Honest mistake!! I type way to fast at times and my vision isn't the greatest Gotta go hot eye test my twin sis Dawn not to happy with me cause I keep putting it off she wanted me to tell you guys be easy on me I'm not purrfect 😻!!!
Prayers and sympathy, always, for the victims of bear, or any kind of animal attack, but we really do have to acknowledge and appreciate how protective these momma's are of their young, ...something many humans could use a few lessons in. 😒
The closest I will ever get to a bear are the Chicago Bears when they come to Ford Field to play the Detroit Lions Bear Country no thank you I wouldn't go out there with an elephant gun .... SBA ROCKS!
That's one bitey bear!
With Nicholas being a hunter, didn't he have his rifle to shoot the moose? If so, why didn't he use it on the sow bear? Because seeing her with cubs, you know she'll attack you, so why use bear spray? That doesn't make sense to me! 🤔😱
She was defending her cubs from what she thought was a possible threat. She didn't deserve to be killed for protecting her cubs. And it's very difficult to kill a charging bear, and wounding the bear would just have made matters worse .
Another clueless and complacent "expert hunter" ...Who goes into Bear Country without 10mm/44 as a sidearm in addition to a rifle??? Why separate on the trail...another dumbo maneuver...these guys were amateur and were asking for it...almost won the Darwin Award for stupidity
@@VK-qe7iflol you sound like pray
@@VK-qe7ifThe man didn't deserved to be mauled just because she taught he was a threat, you won't last 3 minutes in the wild
I love your storytelling. But to reply to a couple of your questions, I don't think she would have killed him if his friend hadn't showed up and shot the gun. I think she would have made sure he wasn't a threat then left to take her cubs to safety. The reason I think this is because he wasn't fighting back, he was only being defensive and she didn't go for his head or maul him the she could have. As for the cubs, I think they learned to stay clear of people. I think she was just being a good mother and I glad that's what the investigators thought too.❤
His friend lives in Alaska and yet he didn't expect to run into a bear ????? SERIOUSLY?
Bear spray is effective only when they are not barreling towards a threat?
It may have bern better to stay quiet & not attract the sows attention. His shout when she was trying to get her cubs to safety seemed to have triggered the attack.
Probably bear spray has a good chance to deter a bear which is curious or scavenging for food. But it won't help if the bear is attacking due to a perceived threat.
I just entered Alaska by cruise. I'm testing the bear protection through the surveys posted through Scary Bear Attacks. If it works, I'll let ya'll know. If it doesn't, well, they're nice videos anyways.
Wow! 😲
but Yogi ... it's okay Boo Boo a bear has to do what a bear has to do.
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Just stay out of the woods because bear spray doesn’t even work so there’s really nothing you can do with a bear
Who is Atticus ? Why I keep seeing this?
The channel owner, narrator. 😁The Scary Bear Guy!! 😆😍 (*Addicus)
Not to be confused with Atticus Finch who got famous in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’😉
Are brown bears and grizzly bears the same??
Yes, same species
They're the same species. However, brown bears usually reside on the coast of Alaska near Rivers where they can eat a lot more salmon and become much larger than the grizzly from the mountains and the interior Forest. They both can have bad attitudes, and the grizzly usually has a worse one than brown bears because they are in a more stressful situation and more hungry do to not having the salmon runs.
@@eveslady100good answer
@@eveslady100 thank you so much for responding to my question, and educating me in the process. Have a blessed day 🙏🏾🌹
@@kaelhooten8468 thank you, I appreciate you answering my question!!🙏🏾🌹
Chance you take when in their house😎
She taught her cubs to destroy anyone carrying a rifle, even those also dispersing bear spray which can't kill them..
I am so glad that you told us that it gets cold in Alaska in the winter, how else would your audience have ever known!!!
You're not forced to listen.......
rooaaarrrr!🐻